More From People Who Survived Violent And Fatal Earthquakes

Death had a field day where I was. Those nasty, tearing, rusty, burning teeth were at work in our city, my city.
I booted the door open. I heard that all were accounted for. I was told I could leave and leave I did, screaming, screaming, screaming- screaming silently (just a...

Christchurch, New Zealand. 4 September 2010, a 7.1 magnitude quake struck near the city, unleashing a long sequence of earthquake aftershocks including the 22 February 2011 6.3 magnitude quake that occurred right under the city causing widespread damage and destruction as well as...

I was living just a few miles from the epicenter of the earthquake that struck the San Fernando Valley, California, on February 9, 1971, at 6:01 am. The quake shook me awake with a sharp jolt, and I thought for sure someone had dropped the atom bomb on Los Angeles or that it was...

The picture books I read as a child often talked about the hero Maui. In those illustrations, the great earth mother was always represented as the shape of rolling hills and mountains. Forever afterwards I've always seen her shape as I look around me at the evidence of a great...